yammer

American  

[yam-er] / ˈyæm ər /

verb (used without object)

1. to whine or complain.

2. to make an outcry or clamor.

3. to talk loudly and persistently.

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verb (used with object)

1. to utter clamorously, persistently, or in complaint.

   They yammered their complaints until she let them see the movie.

noun

1. the act or noise of yammering.

yammer British  

/ ˈjæmə /

verb

1. to utter or whine in a complaining or peevish manner

2. to make (a complaint) loudly or persistently

3. (intr) (esp of an animal) to howl or wail plaintively or distressingly; yelp or yowl

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noun

1. a yammering sound, wail, or utterance

2. nonsense; jabber

Other Word Forms

• yammerer noun
• yammeringly adverb

Etymology

Origin of yammer

1275–1325; Middle English yameren (v.) < Middle Dutch jam(m ) eren, replacing Middle English yomeren, Old English gēomrian to complain, derivative of gēomor sad; akin to German Jammer lamentation

Example Sentences

I mourn the tragic loss of “of” In many an online yammer; The shortened form I do not love.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2021

The flashbacks interrupt whatever momentum Zhao builds, while the yammer only further muddies an already convoluted story.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021

I’ve listened to philosophers yammer ad nauseam about Kripke’s magnum opus, Naming and Necessity, and I sat in on a seminar with him in 2016.

From Scientific American • Mar. 23, 2019

As he drives a car, the adult Fox rides shotgun, filming him, letting him yammer on about the power of a child’s love.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 18, 2018

She could yammer on with the dust mites until suppertime for all I cared.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan